When I upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9 a bunch of things stopped working; the browser would spawn new windows whenever I clicked on a URL regardless of the config settings, popup-blocking was less-reliable, sometimes the download manager wouldn't close itself after a download was complete, and other weirdness. I think I'm going to hold off this time on promptly upgrading because 0.9 was not an improvement over 0.8.
Go see the movie, then we'll chat. Otherwise it's pointless.
I take it you're a male? Maybe in the spirit of your previous post we should seek your wisdom on the topic of menstration? You're probably equally qualified on that as you are to harp about Michael Moore.
You might be right. I'm not disagreeing with you, but isn't it still a nice idea to put this earth-friendly technology in the public domain and allow others to use it? That seems to be a very positive, uplifting story during a time when there are so few nice things to read about. Can we suspend our intense cynacism for even a few moments?
Then again, I'm probably just a shill for Disney, so ignore me.
You're right. Look at Howard Dean and his downfall, merely because the media took a 10 second soundbyte and saturated it out of context and that was the end of his political career.... and that pretty much shows you that you can't trust the media to give you any decent information.
It's funny because only after Dean was out of the race, did we begin to get some decent footage of him and learned how articulate and intelligent he really was. Very sad.
Jeff Jarvis, a well-respected and popular blogger, has put together the best review of Fahrenheit 9/11 I have seen so far.
HAHAHAHA. You mean "best review that Rush Limbaugh would agree with" so far. This guy is way out in right field.... here's a great example:
: The real problem with the film, the really offensive thing about it, is that in Fahrenheit 9/11, we -- Americans from the President on down -- are portrayed as the bad guys.
I didn't get this. This is ridiculous. If anything, Moore's film portrays the vast majority of Americans as being victims of the administration. The film repeatedly shows scenario after scenario where average people are making sacrifices so a handful of uber rich folks can get even richer. And this moron says his film makes Americans the bad guys? It's exactly the opposite.
It goes without saying, that to the Iraqis Americans are the "bad guys". Only someone heavily deluded can't draw that conclusion. It's perfectly reasonable. When you kill someone's family, and previously these people probably couldn't even have identified your country on a map, they might be a little bit upset. One minute they've got a tyranical dictator, the next they have strange foreigners bombing their town and killing their friends and family. HOW DARE they consider the Americans bad guys! What the hell has happened to our sense of reason?
Why don't you make an effort to WTFM before you criticize it and spread your own, even more insideous form of propaganda?
People like you, who speculate that the movie makes inaccurate statements, when you haven't even seen it, are part of the problem. Because Moore was so heavily lambasted in his previous work, he took extra steps to make sure everything was accurate.
I only wish that the Democratic candidate was worth voting for.
The Democratic candidate IS worth voting for. Kerry is a far superior choice, despite the fact that the mainstream media corporations, who have benefitted from the GOPs deregulation bonanza, will do their best to portray him as undesireable.
Trying to fairly asses Kerry as a competent leader by watching mainstream media, is about as productive and fair as asking an MCSE to tell you about the benefits of Linux.
I do not support Bush. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to justify support for Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
Your response would be humorous if it wasn't sad, and an indication of how much faith people have in the fairness of our society.
Bush doesn't have, nor has he ever really had any power. The corporations which profit from his policies are the ones with power. If Moore's efforts didn't also generate a lot of money for select companies, his message would have been squashed. But some people made almost $30M in revenue the first weekend alone, so by that virtue, he still is able to get some cooperation from key players who would help bring his product to market. Bush has no power over that, but maybe his corporate pupeteers do, but in this case, some other corporations are standing up to profit from Moore and the American people get the added benefit of an alternative point of view on current events as a side effect.
OK... He claimed Bush let some Bin Laden family members out of the country during the air lockdown. This is not true.
You are lying and/or ignorant (and I'd bet you haven't seen the movie in the first place). Moore did NOT make that claim. Stop spreading stupid anti-Moore propaganda that has been clearly refuted.
I concurr. At the opening in my town it was all much younger people than I expected. Mostly 20-somethings. Probably people who are still young enough to be open minded and recognize that what Moore has to say is something they can't get from mainstream media and want some balance in figuring out what to believe over all these political events.
While the baby boomers may be taking the country to hell in a handbasket, maybe this "generation Y" will finally get off their butts and effect change?
How important is it that they stuffed lots of people into two theaters for one day?
Very important in light of the fact that the mainstream media tends to ignore a lot of the issues that he raises. If your main source of information was from television, you'd probably never know there were more substantive groups of people who don't necessarily agree with FOX news' agenda. And since we seem to live in a world now where money dictates just about everything else, voting with your wallet at the movie theatres has become a political statement (see "Passion of the Christ").
Plus, whenever Moore releases his movies, all his critics say nobody goes to see them, which is patently false.
Columbine wasn't the fault of guns, TV, movies, video games, what have you. It was the fault of the two teenagers who did it.
Likewise, the movie (Bowling for Columbine) wasn't really about guns. It was about how violent our society has become. Moore's interview with Charlton Heston pretty much nailed it when he admitted he was a racist and the whole idea of packing heat was some sort of perverse protection against the colorization of America.
It's obvious you haven't seen F911. I'd gather almost every critic of the movie hasn't seen it. It's about as pro-American as a movie can get actually.
I thought it was a great movie. As an American, I still discovered a lot of information that I was unaware of. I expected this, since the mainstream media isn't covering a lot of important news (CNN yesterday talked half the day about one of the Olson twins' having annorexia, and MSNBC couldn't stop harping about Brittney Spears marriage).
I read a lot of independent news online and have a subscription to London's Financial Times and still, there were lots of revealing info in the movie that took me by surprise.
Everyone, especially in America, regardless of political affilliation, should see this movie.
Think about it. The Beastie Boys have consistently produced such mindless, anti-musical, derivative, unoriginal material, the prospect of gathering information on the demographics of their fans is quote provacative. This is a unique opportunity to further study an elusive group that seems to have absolutely no taste in music.
last paragraph sums it up
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Wired on McBride
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There may indeed be a holy war raging, but SCO joined it out of desperation, not in deference to a higher calling. The very day that McBride took the job as CEO in 2002, the company, then a friendly Linux reseller known as Caldera Systems, received a delisting notice from Nasdaq - despite having done a reverse four-for-one stock split just three months before. It then spent $4 million in a stock buyback to boost the price, which left the business with less than four months' worth of cash in the bank. Caldera's Linux operation was spending $4 for every dollar in revenue it earned. McBride faced a nearly hopeless situation. One of his first moves was to change the name of the company to the SCO Group and craft a strategy to use its ownership of Unix as a legal weapon against the Linux community.
When your company is dying, change its name and start suing people. Yep, SCO is very much an influential leader in the technology industry. No wonder so many people want to use their products.
[ ] A "solution" to the spam problem! (w00t) [ ] Theoretical "feel good" story of spammers having a bad day. [ ] A successful astroturfing of an impractical 'solution' developed by a company who will basically profit from spam. [ ] Promotion of the application of borrowing a paradigm from one industry that really doesn't apply to another (see also: "apples and oranges") [ ] Another anti-spam solution which does nothing to address the real problem of spam, mainly involving violation of existing laws, computer tampering, bandwidth and resource exploitation. [ ] The promotion of a new 'system' to fix the problem which basically involves re-writing all the old systems and only works if everybody uses it. [ ] Yet another flavor of whitelisting, but this time it's different! This time a proprietary company will assure us their particular brand of whitelisting will be fair and superior! [x] All of the above
It used to be that CERT would be all over these situations. Now on the occasion where I do get an e-mail advisory from them, it's old news. What has happened to this once-useful organization?
Aye, it was unfair of the press to take that speech out of context. He was actually speaking at a convention of the National Association of Boolean Logisticians.
What makes anyone think any of these laws will actually be enforced?
People seem to think that just passing a law is going to "make it so". Like all the anti-spam laws, and how much they've stopped spam. Nice idea in theory but I've lost faith that the government has the incentive or resources to enforce half of the laws that are on the books. Maybe we can pass a law making it mandatory to enforce laws?
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When I upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9 a bunch of things stopped working; the browser would spawn new windows whenever I clicked on a URL regardless of the config settings, popup-blocking was less-reliable, sometimes the download manager wouldn't close itself after a download was complete, and other weirdness. I think I'm going to hold off this time on promptly upgrading because 0.9 was not an improvement over 0.8.
At least there's some comfort in knowing that ICANN's incompetence transcends political, economic and social barriers.
Go see the movie, then we'll chat. Otherwise it's pointless.
I take it you're a male? Maybe in the spirit of your previous post we should seek your wisdom on the topic of menstration? You're probably equally qualified on that as you are to harp about Michael Moore.
You might be right. I'm not disagreeing with you, but isn't it still a nice idea to put this earth-friendly technology in the public domain and allow others to use it? That seems to be a very positive, uplifting story during a time when there are so few nice things to read about. Can we suspend our intense cynacism for even a few moments?
Then again, I'm probably just a shill for Disney, so ignore me.
Best source for Iraqi casualties I've found is here:
Iraqbodycount.com
You're right. Look at Howard Dean and his downfall, merely because the media took a 10 second soundbyte and saturated it out of context and that was the end of his political career.... and that pretty much shows you that you can't trust the media to give you any decent information.
It's funny because only after Dean was out of the race, did we begin to get some decent footage of him and learned how articulate and intelligent he really was. Very sad.
I think this quote by Jeff Jarvis pretty much sums up his cognitive abilities:
There's a difference between someone you disagree with like Limbaugh, and an outright liar like Moore....
Apparently Limbaugh is not a liar, and Michael Moore is.
Jarvis must be on Oxycotin as well.
HAHAHAHA. You mean "best review that Rush Limbaugh would agree with" so far. This guy is way out in right field.... here's a great example:
I didn't get this. This is ridiculous. If anything, Moore's film portrays the vast majority of Americans as being victims of the administration. The film repeatedly shows scenario after scenario where average people are making sacrifices so a handful of uber rich folks can get even richer. And this moron says his film makes Americans the bad guys? It's exactly the opposite.
It goes without saying, that to the Iraqis Americans are the "bad guys". Only someone heavily deluded can't draw that conclusion. It's perfectly reasonable. When you kill someone's family, and previously these people probably couldn't even have identified your country on a map, they might be a little bit upset. One minute they've got a tyranical dictator, the next they have strange foreigners bombing their town and killing their friends and family. HOW DARE they consider the Americans bad guys! What the hell has happened to our sense of reason?
From what I've heard of this movie so far
Why don't you make an effort to WTFM before you criticize it and spread your own, even more insideous form of propaganda?
People like you, who speculate that the movie makes inaccurate statements, when you haven't even seen it, are part of the problem. Because Moore was so heavily lambasted in his previous work, he took extra steps to make sure everything was accurate.
I only wish that the Democratic candidate was worth voting for.
The Democratic candidate IS worth voting for. Kerry is a far superior choice, despite the fact that the mainstream media corporations, who have benefitted from the GOPs deregulation bonanza, will do their best to portray him as undesireable.
Trying to fairly asses Kerry as a competent leader by watching mainstream media, is about as productive and fair as asking an MCSE to tell you about the benefits of Linux.
I do not support Bush. But if there were ever any reason that I would use to justify support for Bush, it would be the fact that a movie like Fahrenheit 9/11 is released while he is in office!!! If Bush were the evil tyrant so many liberals say he is, that movie would have been squashed.
Your response would be humorous if it wasn't sad, and an indication of how much faith people have in the fairness of our society.
Bush doesn't have, nor has he ever really had any power. The corporations which profit from his policies are the ones with power. If Moore's efforts didn't also generate a lot of money for select companies, his message would have been squashed. But some people made almost $30M in revenue the first weekend alone, so by that virtue, he still is able to get some cooperation from key players who would help bring his product to market. Bush has no power over that, but maybe his corporate pupeteers do, but in this case, some other corporations are standing up to profit from Moore and the American people get the added benefit of an alternative point of view on current events as a side effect.
OK... He claimed Bush let some Bin Laden family members out of the country during the air lockdown. This is not true.
You are lying and/or ignorant (and I'd bet you haven't seen the movie in the first place). Moore did NOT make that claim. Stop spreading stupid anti-Moore propaganda that has been clearly refuted.
I concurr. At the opening in my town it was all much younger people than I expected. Mostly 20-somethings. Probably people who are still young enough to be open minded and recognize that what Moore has to say is something they can't get from mainstream media and want some balance in figuring out what to believe over all these political events.
While the baby boomers may be taking the country to hell in a handbasket, maybe this "generation Y" will finally get off their butts and effect change?
Another moron trying to tell us what other people think, who hasn't seen the movie. STFU please.
How important is it that they stuffed lots of people into two theaters for one day?
Very important in light of the fact that the mainstream media tends to ignore a lot of the issues that he raises. If your main source of information was from television, you'd probably never know there were more substantive groups of people who don't necessarily agree with FOX news' agenda. And since we seem to live in a world now where money dictates just about everything else, voting with your wallet at the movie theatres has become a political statement (see "Passion of the Christ").
Plus, whenever Moore releases his movies, all his critics say nobody goes to see them, which is patently false.
Columbine wasn't the fault of guns, TV, movies, video games, what have you. It was the fault of the two teenagers who did it.
Likewise, the movie (Bowling for Columbine) wasn't really about guns. It was about how violent our society has become. Moore's interview with Charlton Heston pretty much nailed it when he admitted he was a racist and the whole idea of packing heat was some sort of perverse protection against the colorization of America.
It's obvious you haven't seen F911. I'd gather almost every critic of the movie hasn't seen it. It's about as pro-American as a movie can get actually.
I thought it was a great movie. As an American, I still discovered a lot of information that I was unaware of. I expected this, since the mainstream media isn't covering a lot of important news (CNN yesterday talked half the day about one of the Olson twins' having annorexia, and MSNBC couldn't stop harping about Brittney Spears marriage).
I read a lot of independent news online and have a subscription to London's Financial Times and still, there were lots of revealing info in the movie that took me by surprise.
Everyone, especially in America, regardless of political affilliation, should see this movie.
Think about it. The Beastie Boys have consistently produced such mindless, anti-musical, derivative, unoriginal material, the prospect of gathering information on the demographics of their fans is quote provacative. This is a unique opportunity to further study an elusive group that seems to have absolutely no taste in music.
There may indeed be a holy war raging, but SCO joined it out of desperation, not in deference to a higher calling. The very day that McBride took the job as CEO in 2002, the company, then a friendly Linux reseller known as Caldera Systems, received a delisting notice from Nasdaq - despite having done a reverse four-for-one stock split just three months before. It then spent $4 million in a stock buyback to boost the price, which left the business with less than four months' worth of cash in the bank. Caldera's Linux operation was spending $4 for every dollar in revenue it earned. McBride faced a nearly hopeless situation. One of his first moves was to change the name of the company to the SCO Group and craft a strategy to use its ownership of Unix as a legal weapon against the Linux community.
When your company is dying, change its name and start suing people. Yep, SCO is very much an influential leader in the technology industry. No wonder so many people want to use their products.
This spam-related article is comprised of:
[ ] A "solution" to the spam problem! (w00t)
[ ] Theoretical "feel good" story of spammers having a bad day.
[ ] A successful astroturfing of an impractical 'solution' developed by a company who will basically profit from spam.
[ ] Promotion of the application of borrowing a paradigm from one industry that really doesn't apply to another (see also: "apples and oranges")
[ ] Another anti-spam solution which does nothing to address the real problem of spam, mainly involving violation of existing laws, computer tampering, bandwidth and resource exploitation.
[ ] The promotion of a new 'system' to fix the problem which basically involves re-writing all the old systems and only works if everybody uses it.
[ ] Yet another flavor of whitelisting, but this time it's different! This time a proprietary company will assure us their particular brand of whitelisting will be fair and superior!
[x] All of the above
The bbc story is here.
It used to be that CERT would be all over these situations. Now on the occasion where I do get an e-mail advisory from them, it's old news. What has happened to this once-useful organization?
Aye, it was unfair of the press to take that speech out of context. He was actually speaking at a convention of the National Association of Boolean Logisticians.
What makes anyone think any of these laws will actually be enforced?
People seem to think that just passing a law is going to "make it so". Like all the anti-spam laws, and how much they've stopped spam. Nice idea in theory but I've lost faith that the government has the incentive or resources to enforce half of the laws that are on the books. Maybe we can pass a law making it mandatory to enforce laws?